Federated Investors reviews the economy and their Strategic Value Dividend strategy during the second quarter of 2013.
"The equity market was volatile in June, as traders vacillated between generally improving economic data and the Federal Reserve sending somewhat mixed messages about when it will start to take some of the punch out of the punch bowl. The latter debate, initially stirred by Chairman Ben Bernanke in his May 22 congressional testimony and again by his comments after this month’s two-day policymakers’ meeting - in which he said tapering could begin as soon as September - caused longer term Treasury rates to spike and risk assets to sell off."